- Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Cheshire Former County constituency for the House of Commons 1545–1832 Cheshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentiary constituency for the county of Cheshire. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.
As a county palatine it was unrepresented in the Parliament until the Chester and Cheshire (Constituencies) Act 1542 (34 & 35 Hen VIII. c. 13). Cheshire was represented by two Knights of the Shire from 1545, with only County Durham out of the English counties being left unrepresented after that.
It was divided between the constituencies of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1832.
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Members of Parliament
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1545-1659
- Constituency created (1545)
Year First member Second member 1545 Sir Lawrence Smith Sir Hugh Calverley 1547 Sir William Brereton Sir Hugh Cholmley Mar 1553 Sir Thomas Holcroft Sir Thomas Venables Oct 1553 Edward Fytton Apr 1554 Sir Henry Delves Richard Wilbraham Nov 1554 Sir Richard Cotton 1555 Sir Lawrence Smith Richard Wilbraham 1558 Richard Hough James Done 1559 Sir William Brereton Sir Ralph Leycester 1563 Sir Thomas Venables William Massye 1571 Thomas Calveley Thomas Stanley 1572 George Calveley William Booth 1584 Thomas Egerton Hugh Cholmondeley 1586 John Savage 1589 Sir George Beeston 1593 Thomas Holcroft John Done 1597 Sir William Brereton Thomas Egerton II 1601 Sir Peter Legh Thomas Holcroft 1604 Sir Thomas Holcroft Sir Roger Aston 1614 Sir William Brereton Sir Gilbert Hoghton 1621 Sir Richard Grosvenor 1624 William Booth William Brereton 1625 Sir Robert Cholmondeley, Bt Sir Anthony St John 1626 Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bt Peter Daniel 1628 Sir William Brereton, Bt April 1640 Sir Thomas Aston, Bt November 1640 Peter Venables 1646 George Booth 1653 Robert Duckenfield Henry Birkenhead - Four members returned to First Protectorate Parliament (1654)
Year First member Second member Third member Fourth member 1654 John Bradshaw Sir George Booth, Bt Henry Brooke John Crew 1656 Richard Legh Thomas Marbury Peter Brooke 1659-1832
- Two members returned to Third Protectorate Parliament (1659)
Year First member First party Second member Second party 1659 John Bradshaw Richard Legh 1660 Sir George Booth, Bt Sir Thomas Mainwaring, Bt 1661 The Lord Brereton Peter Venables 1664 Sir Fulk Lucy 1670 Thomas Cholmondeley 1678 Hon. Henry Booth Whig February 1679 Sir Philip Egerton September 1679 Sir Robert Cotton, Bt Whig 1685 Sir Philip Egerton Thomas Cholmondeley 1689 Sir Robert Cotton, Bt Whig Sir John Mainwaring, Bt Whig 1702 Sir George Warburton, Bt Tory Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt Tory 1705 Langham Booth Whig John Offley-Crewe Whig 1710 Sir George Warburton, Bt Tory Charles Cholmondeley 1715 Langham Booth Whig 1722 Charles Cholmondeley John Offley-Crewe Whig 1727 Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt 1734 John Crewe 1753 Charles Crewe 1754 Samuel Egerton 1756 Thomas Cholmondeley 1768 John Crewe Whig 1780 Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt 1796 Thomas Cholmondeley 1802 William Egerton 1806 Davies Davenport 1812 Wilbraham Egerton Tory 1830 Viscount Belgrave Conservative 1831 George Wilbraham Whig - Constituency abolished (1832)
Elections
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References
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1545
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1832
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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